What’s Happening in Your Community?

Happy New Year!

How are you? Do you have any new projects in the works? Do you need support in your Good Work? What is happening in your community? We are inviting you to our first gathering of the new year, where we can connect with old friends, meet some new ones and answer some of these questions. 

We have been hearing about some of the initiatives happening across the network of those doing Good Work towards Just Transition here in this valley of the Mahicantuck river. We also know that there are so many more things happening, big and small, that are adding up to making a difference in our region. Sharing these is a crucial part of the work. It’s how we inspire each other, how we increase what’s possible and collectively imagine and build.

Join us in a virtual space to share what’s happening in your community. At this session, we will hear from each other, ask each other questions, and share calls of action. Feel free to enjoy your dinner while we connect and share with each other so that we can support each other in carrying this momentum forward. We will host this event via Zoom. The link will be provided in the registration confirmation email. 

What’s Happening in Your Community?

Let’s connect and share what’s happening through our Good Work and in the places we live and work.

About this event

A new season is upon us, as we transition into autumn. AND some things remain the same. The disruptions of pandemic virus variants and the impacts of the storms earlier this month highlight our ongoing need for resilient communities made up of people rejecting systems of oppression and, who are co-creating caring, life-affirming, regenerative communities through their Good Work.

How are you doing, what have you been up to, and what is happening in your community? These are the questions we all will get to answer at this online GWI Network connect and catch-up.

GWI Network Happy Hour

You are invited to a GWI Happy Hour at the Greenhouse! At our first social event since the pandemic, we’ll be meetin’, mixin’ and minglin’ with other GWI Network members over beverages and noshes.

Come hang with those folks you might have only seen online this past year. Our connectedness to each other is what makes all of our Good Work stronger, so we would love to see you there!

Out of respect for various needs and comfort levels, no masks outdoors + masks indoors when not eating or drinking are required.

Racial Sensitivity, Equity & Inclusion Reading Circle: THICK: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

A collaborative offering from Good Work Fellow Dara Lurie & GWI, the Racial Sensitivity, Equity & Inclusion Reading Circle will read works of current and past Black authors, in fiction and non-fiction, that allow us to see beyond the ‘white gaze’, a set of omnipresent, yet invisible, cultural beliefs, norms, and assumptions, that have for generations defined what it means to be American while excluding and other-ing persons of native and African descent.

We welcome you to join us for the first gathering of this Reading Circle!

The Book: Our first reading will be Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom.

The Author: Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is author of Lower Ed; The Troubling Rise of For Profit Colleges in the New Economy and co-hosts the on-point, podcast, Hear to Slay, with author, Roxanne Gay.

The Discussion: Participants are welcome to read the entire book but are requested to focus closely on one (or two) two essays to allow their thoughts, questions and reactions to percolate to the surface for our conversation. Please share questions, links and discussion topics with the host at least 24 hours prior to the meet-up. You will be given instructions for doing this after you have registered for the event.